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This is a response to ingres' recent post sharing Less Wrong survey results. If you haven't read & upvoted it, I strongly encourage you to--

I recently noticed I had two mental processes opposing one another in an interesting way. The first mental process was instilled by readin

Many of the biggest historical success stories in philanthropy have come in the form of funding for academic research.  This suggests that t

At the 2014 Effective Altruism Summit in Berkeley a few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of talking to Matt Fallshaw about the things he does t

Note: this post leans heavily on metaphors and examples from computer programming, but I've tried to write it so it's accessible to a determ

According to Robin Hanson's arguments in this blog post, we want to promote research in to cell modeling technology (ideally at the expense

In honor of System Administrator Appreciation Day, this is a post to thank Trike Apps for creating & maintaining Less Wrong.  A lot of the t

We talk about a wide variety of stuff on LW, but we don't spend much time trying to identify the very highest-utility stuff to discuss and p

Summary - There's a decent chance that the intelligence of a self-improving AGI will grow in a relatively smooth exponential or sub-expone

Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain - Like the Human Genome Project, but for brain mapping (Feb 17) Human brain and graphene proje